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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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Year of the Rat Spirit Prevails As China Overcomes Its Weather | China Briefing News
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Feb 8, 4:10pm
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"Capitalism with Chinese characteristics" overcomes the Weather
via China Law Blog; in "China Briefing" by Dezan Shira & Associates China's largest independent business advisory
China's long ten days of extreme snowy conditions finally relented as a massive coordinated effort by the national and regional Governments together with the military enabled the nation to enjoy a peaceful new year. Snow was cleared, trains although delayed, arrived, and fuel got through to power stations to permit Chinese nationals the luxury of a few days holiday.
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What other government, one has to ask, would commandeer commercial trains and vehicles, to divert them to where power was needed - for the good of the whole, rather than pander to the continuing profits of energy and transportation companies ? Who else would step in and cap the prices of basic foodstuffs, when rampant profiteering had threatened to drive them out of the hands of many of China's poorer people ? "Its not market-driven" scream the detractors. Definitely not, but its a good deal more civilized.
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As the snows in China recede, and as the nation can bask in the joy of a new Chinese Year, the main lesson to be learnt is that the Chinese system of managing their country seems just about right. "Capitalism with Chinese characterstics" works - when the State has the power to step in and correct adversity. Having solved the problem of keeping 1.3 billion people happy during the most important social time of year and under difficult national weather conditions, the Spring Festival of 2008 may well go down in history as when global economists - and donu2019t forget the new World Bank Chief Economist is Chinese - start to apply more of that medicine to curb the rampant selfishness of some capitalist theory and the insane ideology of the worst of communist social control that we see with depressingly now frequent occurance in the West, and in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere in Asia in different guises. The new global economic thinking is now Chinese influenced, and we just saw it in action in China. It was impressive.
 "Capitalism with Chinese characteristics" overcomes the Weather
Here's an interesting approach of China's societal system. Some will reject the ideas in this article. Fact is that no other country in the world could solve so successfully a problem so huge as the last snow storms that immobilized China.
The world is starting to acknowledge the successes of China's model and I think its impact is going to be felt ever more powerfully in the years to come. But what is China's model? It's capitalism with Chinese characteristics. But what does that mean?
- It's the recognition that the logic of capital is the most effective and transforming societal force in history.
- It's the recognition that the logic of capital has to be framed within a more globally encompassing logic, human logic, in order to harmonize the functioning of societal.
- It's the application of China's ancestral ideas about morality and the organization of society in its politics
- It's the technical knowledge China has gained along more than 2 Milena of management of large bureaucratic structures; knowledge that has been transmitted to the present generations who put it successfully in application.
What do you think?
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